Recorded Platform Announcements

Hope you can assist. I'm looking for any recorded station platform announcements. (any format, preferably .WAV)

I've worked out JMRI SoundPro and using a Logix to trigger sounds, and want to trigger passenger platform announcements. I've got it working, but just need some actual announcements now. Also got it working from JMRI WiThrottle to trigger manually from my Android tablet. Doesn't really matter what the announcement are.

You know, "DING DING DING DONG.......... The next train to arrive on platform four goes to ..... blah blah blah" or "DING DING DING DONG........ Stand clear on platform 2. Train now departing".

I could record them myself using my own voice, and tried that, but BLYAAAARK!! Just doesn't sound right... with the ambience/echo/style of real ones.

Any suggestions? Any other section on Railpage perhaps I should ask as well?

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There is a guy on the NSW forums that has a DVA software and if you can (without the copyright stuff) strip the .wav files off DVA.Download link for DVAX'Trapolis-904M

Brilliant, brilliant and even more brillianter than brilliant. That will give me enough to play with for ..... well..... ever. You can "export" your tailored announcement as a .WAV, which I can then load into JMRI SoundPro. I'm sure there's something in JMRI SoundPro (or something) that will add a bit of reverb/echo to it to get that more authentic sound to it. There are 3 files. the .exe (which install it) and two others. a .bz2 and a .gz Not sure what they're for yet, but appear to be some sort of .zip files. Need to find something that will open them. Will check that one out tomorrow. I'm sure I'll find a use for the "Indicators" section in it as well.

I"ll try and put up a video of it all pieced together soon. Including LocSound DCC loco, with the JMRI SoundPro announcements. All run from Androind tablet. Watch my blog for it soon. http://garahbara.blogspot.com/

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Hmm, I could actually understand what the bloke was saying Gara. A bit more work needed there.

For the era I prefer to model no real need. Sydney Central was about the only place that had announcements and they were absolutely unintelligible. That's in New South. Maybe Spencer Street and Flinders Street had better systems and better announcers.

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Hmm, I could actually understand what the bloke was saying Gara. A bit more work needed there.

For the era I prefer to model no real need. Sydney Central was about the only place that had announcements and they were absolutely unintelligible. That's in New South. Maybe Spencer Street and Flinders Street had better systems and better announcers.John_Bushell

In thems proper days, John, they used a real person with a microphone. Usually of Italian or Greek decent, and completely unintelligible. Dearly love to get hold of some of these 50s and 60s Flinders St station platform announcements. "Dundar nee nonga tahran now a dapartering ona da plutfum seeks stupping alla da staysherns to a dunder nee nong. Stund clar plus" All said at a hundred miles an hour!

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 14:23

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In thems proper days, John, they used a real person with a microphone. Usually of Italian or Greek decent, and completely unintelligible. Dearly love to get hold of some of these 50s and 60s Flinders St station platform announcements. "Dundar nee nonga tahran now a dapartering ona da plutfum seeks stupping alla da staysherns to a dunder nee nong. Stund clar plus" All said at a hundred miles an hour!Garahbara

Funny, their cousins were in Sydney on the end of a mike. Must have been a recruiting directive, give the {resist derogatory names} a go.

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 17:17

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In thems proper days, John, they used a real person with a microphone. Usually of Italian or Greek decent, and completely unintelligible. Dearly love to get hold of some of these 50s and 60s Flinders St station platform announcements. "Dundar nee nonga tahran now a dapartering ona da plutfum seeks stupping alla da staysherns to a dunder nee nong. Stund clar plus" All said at a hundred miles an hour!Garahbara

That bloke used to work at Box Hill . He gave me a clip over the ears because I used to use my home made square key to open the gates and let the passengers off the platform while he was flagging the train off.

"Borks-ill, Leelydale tran stoppin al stayshuns"

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 09:14

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There are 3 files. the .exe (which install it) and two others. a .bz2 and a .gz Not sure what they're for yet, but appear to be some sort of .zip files. Need to find something that will open them.Garahbara

Just about anything can open bz2 and gz files (or, .tar.gz, as they are usually paired together, as tar files have no compression at all) - they are the standard archive format for Linux. Your best bet would probably be 7-zip under Windows (I have no idea about Mac software; the last and only Mac I ever used was made in 1991).

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 05:46

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Just about anything can open bz2 and gz files (or, .tar.gz, as they are usually paired together, as tar files have no compression at all) - they are the standard archive format for Linux. Your best bet would probably be 7-zip under Windows (I have no idea about Mac software; the last and only Mac I ever used was made in 1991).Heihachi_73

Worked them out. Ordinary old Winzip ( on windows) opens them. My Winzip was not configed to use that file extension (.bz2 & .gz). What's in them is a .dmg file (Disc "mountable image") for Macs I understand. For Windows, you just need the .exe.